Iphone navigation
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I use it on an iPad. Would not use on an iPhone because of size. On the iPad, one issue not related to the app is visibility in sunlight is not so good. The app itself is very good. Quality of maps is very good as well as gps accuracy. Has anchor alarm which is useful as long as you have a charged battery. The touch function for dropping in waypoints or identifying objects can be non-responsive sometime.
We use it overseas (Greece, UK, France), initially because the charting was 1/2 the price of Navionics. But now, the current version of the app is VERY GOOD and stands with iNavx and Navionics. As Mark noted, the method they used for positioning the cursor for marks or distance measuring was funky but now is way better.
The next version due very soon will have AIS over cellular and real time and forecast weather.
In addition, if you buy if for the pad you can run the app on your iPhone as well.
I'm a fan. But also look into NobleTec TimeZero.
The next version due very soon will have AIS over cellular and real time and forecast weather.
In addition, if you buy if for the pad you can run the app on your iPhone as well.
I'm a fan. But also look into NobleTec TimeZero.
This week I used it in conjunction with my plotter. It's easy to zoom in and out as opposed to poking buttons on the plotter (441s). I also use boat beacon to give me AIS and I can share my location with land folk. You have to keep your iPhone shaded as the GPS functions make it hot and the sun will really make it hot.
The Royal Navy
On warships which have the most advanced electronic navigation systems available. They are totally useless if shot away by 'action', thus all midshipmen and navigation officers navigate by sextant and plotting sheets and a bit o' dead reckoning. They keep these skills up to date. Usually there are no electronics in a lifeboat Etc. after the ship has foundered Etc.
In that example should be an answer to your question of pilotage by modern electronics. I still run a log aft and use normal paper pilotage. Any electronic device is great in support but charts and logging on a chart is still very reliable and may I say traditional.
Paul
the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy at midday at sea, take a sun sight by sextant, then run like mad to the chart desk to verify manually their position. Go onto any 'ship' and you will see a Mercator plotting sheet on the navigators table tracking pilotage during the departure.
On warships which have the most advanced electronic navigation systems available. They are totally useless if shot away by 'action', thus all midshipmen and navigation officers navigate by sextant and plotting sheets and a bit o' dead reckoning. They keep these skills up to date. Usually there are no electronics in a lifeboat Etc. after the ship has foundered Etc.
In that example should be an answer to your question of pilotage by modern electronics. I still run a log aft and use normal paper pilotage. Any electronic device is great in support but charts and logging on a chart is still very reliable and may I say traditional.
Paul
Oh I don't know that we have to refrain from using technology for the sake of traditions, and I know we carry paper charts if I lost batteries or the satellite a were turned off but they are now back up. We pull them out occasionally just so we don't forget how to use them but for us little boats who don't leave the Chesapeake, they are back ups for our electronics. That won't go over well with hardcore traditionalists but then again I still don't have a Facebook page and my kids think I am not smart enough. I still occasionally hand write a letter, they don't get that either.